2004 Volume 70 Issue 699 Pages 3046-3052
Recently a new type of impact damper, whose impacting body is made of elastic material, has been developed. This type of impact damper is called elastic impact damper. In a previous report, the authors studied the effect of the elastic impact damper, and clarified its damping mechanism. In that report, a single-degree-of-freedom system is taken up as the object of vibration suppression. In this report, a continuous system is taken up. As an example, a beam is considered. Possibility of vibration suppression of resonances for several modes of the beam is studied by numerical simulation and experiment.